This month saw several major driver updates, a giant Patch Tuesday, and some worthwhile Windows 8 news:
- Does a $40 Price Tag Make Windows 8 More Appealing?
- Windows 8 to be Available in "Late October" (eventually confirmed to be October 26th)
- Patch Tuesday July 2012: 9 Updates Correcting 16 Issues
- NVIDIA GeForce Video Card Drivers v304.79 Beta Now Available
- AMD Radeon Video Card Drivers v12.6 Now Available
- Intel Chipset Drivers Version 9.3.0.1021 Now Available
New Content:
Aside from the newsy items, here are a few of the how-to's, tutorials, and other content I've added this month:
This is a complete review of [currently] my favorite online backup service.
...and a full walkthrough of the CrashPlan software.
After hundreds of repeat questions from my free registry cleaner list, I figured it was time for a FAQ page. Check this out if you still think registry cleaning is an important computer maintenance task.
How Do I Open an Elevated Command Prompt?
Some Windows commands must be run from a Command Prompt window that's been opened "as an administrator." Here's how to do that in all major Windows operating systems.